Who Should Attend

If your job entails valuing upstream petroleum assets and/or contributing inputs to the valuation process or interpreting the outputs, this course is for you. It is particularly appropriate for petroleum engineers or geo-scientists who are moving into management and/or planning. It will also be very useful for technical professionals in the upstream E&P industry as it lays out the needs, expectations and limitation in the economic evaluation process and hence will provide a better understanding of the way their information is being used in the economic evaluation and investment decision-making process.

 

 

Course Description

This course is designed to increase the knowledge and skills of anyone valuing upstream petroleum assets as well as those contributing inputs to the valuation process or interpreting the outputs. It is a practical petroleum economics course which introduces participants to methods and practices utilized in the international oil industry to examine the economic viability of upstream oil & gas projects.

The course provides the latest available knowledge to formulate, apply, and report on the investment decision-making process relevant for the exploration & production industry.  The skills learnt are applicable to a wide range of projects, from relatively simple reservoir management decisions, such as evaluating a single-track, to major field development decisions. Requirements for valuing a project are addressed in detail. Microsoft Excel will be used for examples and exercises.

 

Course Content

§         Analyzing investment opportunities

§         Estimating the flow of money

§         International fiscal regimes

§         Financial concepts

§         Classical investment valuation

§         Performance metrics and efficiency measures

§         Modern investment valuation

§         Review of probability and statistics

§         Uncertainty assessment

§         Decision trees

§         Value-of-Information

§         Monte Carlo simulation